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NEW DELHI: India is working to ensure “not a single drop of water” will flow into neighbouring Pakistan, the water minister has said, after New Delhi put the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) into abeyance following the Pahalgam attack in April 2025.
“It is certain, not a single drop of water will go (to Pakistan) in the coming years,” Minister of Water CR Patil told India’s ANI news agency late Tuesday. Patil, speaking in Hindi, said that India is “actively working on it” after “directives” from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The treaty governs the use of water from six rivers, whose headwaters originate in India but flow into Pakistan as part of the Indus basin — a resource relied on by hundreds of millions. The Indus cuts through ultra-sensitive demarcation lines between India and Pakistan in contested, Muslim-majority Kashmir — a Himalayan territory both countries claim in full.
Indian water minister says working to ensure ‘not a single drop of water’ flows downstream
